Cowan Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350–1560

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2960-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

This book examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation: what the living did to influence the dead and vice versa; considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Protestant Reformation took hold.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cowan, Mairi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: Lamenting the dead
1. How the living influenced the dead
2. How the dead influenced the living
Part II: Summoning the living
3. Communities of religion
4. The individual in the community
Part III: Subduing thunderbolts
5. Religious dissent
6. Catholic reform
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cowan Mairi:
Dr Mairi Cowan is a Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto MississaugaMairi Cowan is a Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga